{"id":30593,"date":"2013-06-15T18:35:01","date_gmt":"2013-06-15T22:35:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=30593"},"modified":"2013-06-15T18:36:19","modified_gmt":"2013-06-15T22:36:19","slug":"tokushima-awa-odori-chicken-curry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2013\/06\/15\/tokushima-awa-odori-chicken-curry\/","title":{"rendered":"Tokushima “Awa Odori” chicken curry"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tom Baker <\/a>(Chiba<\/a>, 1989-91)\u00a0is writing a 47-part weekly series of posts on his Tokyo Tom Baker blog<\/a>, in which he\u00a0samples and comments on a curry from a different prefecture each week. Here\u2019s an excerpt from his fifh installment, about\u00a0Tokushima Prefecture<\/a>:<\/em><\/p>\n

The largely rural prefecture was once a major supplier of chicken to the urban market in Osaka, a relatively short boat ride away.<\/p>\n

But in the late 1960s, poultry imports began on a large scale\u2014particularly from Brazil, which is still a significant supplier of chicken to Japan. In the face of such competition, the absolute and relative size of the Tokushima poultry industry began to shrink.<\/p>\n

In an effort to distinguish their product, Tokushima farmers began crossbreeding<\/a> Shamo chickens <\/a>(a Japanese breed that has Thai roots) with white Plymouth Rock chickens <\/a>from America. They called the resulting birds \u2026 Awa Odori.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tom Baker (Chiba, 1989-91)\u00a0is writing a 47-part weekly series of posts on his Tokyo Tom Baker blog, in which he\u00a0samples and comments on a curry from a different prefecture each week. Here\u2019s an excerpt from his fifh installment, about\u00a0Tokushima Prefecture: The largely rural prefecture was once a major supplier of chicken to the urban market […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[70],"tags":[1035,1034,1033,1036],"class_list":["post-30593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food-drink","tag-awa-odori","tag-chicken-curry","tag-tokushima","tag-tokyo-tom-baker"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t